Galax, Virginia

August 2 thru 8 2015

We left Sunday and drove down Route 221 south to Galax, Va. To the 80th Fiddlers Convention for another week.
The campground was full with Airstreams, we had met up with 3 other couples that we met before, glad to see them again.  What a great week of Bluegrass music, every night they had contest at the convention, Monday was for the youth competition, some as young as 5-15 years old.  Every day we had different groups at the campground that had played for everyone that wanted to attend.  Every night when we went to the convention they had a special parking place for us all.

The leader of our activities planned a get acquainted gathering on the Blue Ridge Parkway, with watermelon for all.  We had a tour of Carroll County Courthouse in Hillsville, where a gun battle shocked the nation in 1912.  The gun battle resulted in the death of 5 people, wounded 7, the execution of 2 more and the incarceration of 4 others.

Another day we had Wayne Henderson, a guy that makes guitars, played with his band for us at the Blue Ridge Music Center.  He is a very interesting person who plays all over the country and overseas, playing bluegrass music.  We had also had a tour of his guitar shop, he is a one man builder and has made two guitars for Eric Clapton, one he plays and the other was auctioned off for one of Wayne's nonprofit organizations.